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Cath Senker – author, editor and RLF Consultant Fellow

I have more than 25 years’ experience in publishing and have written around 160 books for children of all ages, specialising in history, biography, global
and social issues, world religions, human geography and environmental topics. I undertake project management of books for children
and adults as well as all kinds of editorial work on educational and craft books; children’s fiction and non-fiction educational and
trade titles; academic reports and online materials. I’m also a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, running writing development
workshops for undergraduate and postgraduate students. I am available for author visits to primary schools.

I have written two non-fiction titles for adults. The first is Cybercrime and the Darknet. 

Reviews

Stranded in the Six-Day War is reviewed in the Nautilus Telegraph, August 2017:

https://nautilusint.org/en/what-we-say/telegraph/

Reader reviews

I read your whole book yesterday, until quite late into the night, totally absorbed. You’ve certainly put your heart into it. I learned a lot from it which I previously didn’t know, especially about the early days. Well done Cath! Captain A. W. Kinghorn, August 2017 (Chief Officer, Scottish Star, 1968 and author of Before the Box Boats, 1983)

I’ve now read your book Stranded in the 6 day war.  It’s superb; you should be congratulated on what you’ve done and you must be proud of the results. Ian Lister, June 2017 (Chief Officer, Port Invercargill, 1967–68)

I have long waited for a book about those trapped ships. Now it has arrived! Philip Roe, June 2017

I must congratulate you on your book. I have enjoyed reading it. It’s very good and I do not know how you obtained all the information. Phil Roberts, June 2017 (4th Engineer, Agalampus, 1968)

I was most impressed with the extensive level of detail and the research Cath has carried out on the ships in the lake; she has done us proud. Brendan Mulhall, June 2017 (Chief Electrician, Port Invercargill, 1968)

As the book progressed from the early days, which I could associate with very clearly, to the high times of the GBLA’s heyday twelve months or so later, I began to wish I had applied to go back for a three month stint. That wonderful community with no borders would’ve been an incredible experience. However, thanks to your great writing I travelled there fifty years later from my armchair on holiday in Queensland. John Sadler, July 2017 (Senior Apprentice, Port Invercargill, 1967)